The criminal complaint against three members of Chega could reach the Attorney General's Office as early as Monday. The timing of the submission of tens of thousands of signatures depends on the agenda of the Attorney General, Amadeu Guerra. The party leader, André Ventura, the parliamentary leader, Pedro Pinto, and the advisor Ricardo Reis are accused, in this action, of instigating the commission of a crime, defending the commission of a crime and inciting collective disobedience.
Early this Monday morning, the number of signatories to the criminal complaint against the three people responsible for Chega reached 117 thousand .The Public Prosecutor's Office has already opened an investigation to determine whether the party leaders committed the crime of inciting hatred.
Miguel Prata Roque, one of the signatories of the criminal complaint, explained last Friday, in statements to RTP, what could be at stake in the actions of the Chega members.
“There was incitement to commit a crime, there was advocacy of the practice of a crime and there was also an offense to the memory of the deceased person” , he argued.
“The revolution”
On Saturday, when speaking before the Assembly of the Republic, after a demonstration in support of the security forces, André Ventura claimed to be the target of an attempted arrest, guaranteeing that, regardless of the outcome of the criminal complaint, Chega will carry out “the revolution” to put an end to what he described as the “system of the last 50 years” .
“It is the revolution, the real revolution that we want to make in Portugal. There is no prison that can stop this revolution, because to arrest one they will have to arrest us all and they will have to put us all in jail , all of us, all of us in jail”, said the president of Chega.
He had previously complained about “a group of vandals destroying the country every night”: “If the one who ends up going to prison is me, everything is wrong in this country, everything is wrong in democracy, everything is wrong in the rule of law that we defend”.The Chega demonstration took place in response to another action, held at the same time, in Lisbon, to demand justice for the death of Odair Moniz.
The funeral of Odair Moniz - the 43-year-old man shot early last week by a PSP officer in Cova da Moura, Amadora - took place on Sunday afternoon. Several hundred people were at the cemetery to pay their respects.
The funeral mass took place at the Buraca Church in the early afternoon and was attended by the mayor of Oeiras, Isaltino Morais.